The soup kitchen is open every day to anyone in Kingman who needs a meal, said Beauchamp.

Nearly 2,000 homeless people were provided with a shower in 2012. More than 1,000 sets of clothing were handed out along with 451 pair of shoes, 119 sets of bedding, and 1,265 hygiene packets.

Nearly 700 food boxes were distributed and more than 6,000 bed nights were provided, said Beauchamp.

Those are impressive figures for an organization that relies almost exclusively on donations and fundraising to survive.

"We are very excited to be celebrating our 10th year," said Beauchamp. "It's so nice to live in a community that helps the homeless. We certainly would not be here without their support."

For Beauchamp, who in January was named executive director of the mission she founded a decade earlier, helping the homeless is a calling from God.

"God told me I was going to open a shelter," she said. "I ignored it for a long time. It just went in one ear and out the other."

God would not be ignored.

"Everywhere I looked there were homeless people. I couldn't sleep," she said. "That's when I began laying out a plan."

For five years Beauchamp worked on the logistics of opening a homeless shelter while working a full-time job and volunteering with the Arizona Youth Partnership, a shelter for runaway boys between the ages of 13 and 17.

"We wanted to make sure we did everything right," she said. "The city was a lot of help to us. We had a grant to purchase a building that had to be refurbished, and the city was there. We opened the doors on April 1, 2003."

Over the next decade the homeless population neither increased nor decreased, said Beauchamp, but the burden has lightened for her and others like her when more people began reaching out to the vulnerable demographic.

But the look of homelessness has changed over the past few years in light of the Great Recession.

"The fastest-growing demographic among the homeless is the family," said Beauchamp, "and then youth."

And the transient nature of the homeless has also changed. Not too long ago the area's homeless population would swell during the mild winter months and thin out during summer.